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> Minus the woman specifier. So, "you should leave this field so someone more deserving can have a place"? When you take out the gender qualifier it doesn't se

• weberc2 8y ago
  Right. Was she asked to leave so someone more deserving (who happened to be a man) could take her place, or was she asked to leave so a man (who happened to be more deserving) could take her place? It seems like someone went out of their way to make the phrasing unusually ambiguous, as though they wanted to make an accusation of sexism but with plausible deniability in case they get called out (motte & bailey fallacy?).
  • stcredzero 8y ago
    Are you referring to my comment? My comment involves a man being told that.
    • weberc2 8y ago
      No, I was referring to the original comment or comments of this form generally.